by Miranda Ruth Larsen K-pop as we know it simply isn’t possible without Japan. Dal Yong Jin contends that Japan is “the most significant foreign…
by Raizel Liebler Michael Fuhr’s Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea: Sounding out K-pop (2016) is an very important addition to the growing field…
by Raizel Liebler One of the first book reviews I wrote for TLF all the way back in 2008 was about Mark James Russell’s earlier…
by Raizel Liebler This discussion of Minzy and IU is part of a series of posts about gender and sexuality in K-pop. The introductory posts…
Despite all of the talk about PSY in the United States, there is still so little substantive discussions of K-pop in English. Here, then, is…
[youtube_sc url=”j7_lSP8Vc3o” playlist=”NB5jyYD2WEw” title=”2ne1%20videos” fs=”1″ ] We, your Learned Fangirls, are trying out something a bit different with this post, our first The Learned Fangirl…
We write a lot about hallyu (exported Korean pop culture) on this blog, and K-pop has really started to hit the mainstream U.S. press this…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gdw1KiIs_8] Today, the BBC posted an article entitled The Dark Side of Korean Pop Music. Interestingly, this is only a couple of months after the…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I96WdNuim4] Here in the U.S., it seems like there can only be one highly successful female rapper at a time — now Nicki Minaj (and…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH01RKvKUNs] Of our very diverse blog posts, some of the most popular are about hallyu, the export of Korean pop culture. While still very much…